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A vast range of new technologies are transforming our lives. Could it be that the human mind is also undergoing unprecedented changes?  Susan Greenfield presents her provocative work on what she considers to be the crisis of our changing world.

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Ted Frost on 06/02/2012 5:17pm

Interesting - perhaps a bit scary? - to hear about plasticity. But surely this feature also presents a really interesting opportunity (as the taxi drivers represent) that we should all be investing in? Why isn't more done to encourage the development of our brain connections - why don't we all come out of school (at 16, 18, 21, whatever) with this as the main message we take with us? If it's true, why don't we care more about it?

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